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Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

crown.co.za

Crown Publications - Leading B2B Magazines Covering

Page Load Speed

7.6 sec in total

First Response

523 ms

Resources Loaded

6.8 sec

Page Rendered

365 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Crown content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about crown.co.za

Crown Publications b2b magazines cover various engineering disciplines with emphasis on industrial and technology applications in chemical, construction, electrical, mechanical and mining fields.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Crown.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 523 ms and then it took 7.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

crown.co.za performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.7 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,270 ms

19/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.328

35/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.1 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

crown.co.za

523 ms

www.crown.co.za

1440 ms

gtm.js

70 ms

js

130 ms

bootstrap.css

519 ms

Our browser made a total of 90 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (81 requests) were addressed to the original Crown.co.za, 2% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Crown.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 198.8 kB (11%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Crown.co.za main page is 1.7 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 85.9 kB

  • Original 101.4 kB
  • After minification 92.2 kB
  • After compression 15.5 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 85.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 90.7 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Crown images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 12.8 kB

  • Original 102.2 kB
  • After minification 102.2 kB
  • After compression 89.4 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 12.8 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 9.5 kB

  • Original 69.1 kB
  • After minification 68.9 kB
  • After compression 59.7 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Crown.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.5 kB or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (42%)

Requests Now

85

After Optimization

49

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 85 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Crown. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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523 ms

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1440 ms

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Accessibility Review

crown.co.za accessibility score

75

Accessibility Issues

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

crown.co.za best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

crown.co.za SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Crown.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Crown.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

crown.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Crown. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: